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Edmonton: Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Quelle
ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线
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In The Microscope: and its Revelations (1856), the biologist William Carpenter pointed to the "rapid increase which has recently taken place in the use of the Microscope,—both as an instrument of scientific research, and as a means of gratifying a laudable curiosity and of obtaining a healthful recreation" (v). When treated as an amusing optical gadget, the microscope was often seen as providing entertainment for the Victorian reading audience. Authors of books on the microscope often tapped into the discourse surrounding the new visual culture. Whereas vitalists maintained that the failure of microscopists to resolve any operative physical structure in protoplasm meant that the cell's life-sustaining activity could be explained only with reference to "vital" forces, Huxley maintained that the identification of a physiochemical basis for life would be discovered in the future when technical progress was sufficiently advanced (Gooday 421-22).